The Simpsons take on The Donald

The Simpsons have weighed in on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, asking the residents of Springfield who they would want as president during a crisis.

“It’s 3 a.m. and the phone’s ringing in the White House. Who do you want answering that call?” said a short clip posted on YouTube that references a Hillary Clinton campaign ad from 2008 when she took on Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.

The clip shows Bill Clinton answering the phone before Hillary demands that the former president hand her the receiver and stop answering the phone.

The mocking of the Clintons is gentle, but Donald Trump is the real butt of the joke.

When the crisis call comes in, Trump is in bed with a book of Adolf Hitler’s greatest speeches by his side. He answers the phone, but only after finishing a tweet about Senator Elizabeth Warren and demanding that his assistant “put my name on the Lincoln Memorial, make Chris Christie eat a worm just for laughs, disband NATO and make me some scrambled eggs on a gold plate.”

A team of assistants then enter the room to transform Trump, who hides his hands in larger fake hands, gets a spray-on tan and has a small dog acting as his hair piece.

“We’re too late? The Chinese fleet is advancing?” Trump says to the advisor on the other end of the call. “Just build another wall. Yes! In the ocean, loser.”

This Simpson’s cartoon is very funny, but way too close to reality right now.

Posted on 8/1/16 | 7:28 PM CET

Michael Iger

Republicans will just write this off to Liberal Hollywood.

Posted on 8/1/16 | 8:06 PM CET

Filippo

Indeed, Homer would have been a better dem candidate than the actual one

Posted on 8/1/16 | 9:33 PM CET

user

Clinton is gentle? Seriously? She is most hypocrite politic in US history. Lies right and left. Changes her views 10 times per day depending on what you want to hear just to please you.

Posted on 8/2/16 | 3:30 AM CET

Nicolas

Interesting that the show subtly stumps for war with references to a Chinese fleet and ending NATO. It’s not a surprise that Hillary, the darling of the military industrial complex, is leading the party.